They actually started building the winning tower design (after reducing it from eight sided to four sided) but ran out of money after the first stage. It sat around for about ten years before they demolished it to build Wembley Stadium.

MWHS: if the purpose of your BA was to gain the power to deconstruct and ruin slivers of joy, then yup, that degree is worth every penny. I s'pose I'm just gonna go sit in the corner and contemplate the lack of a true and loving god in an unsympathetic universe. Thanks.

OH! OH! But before I put on my moping slippers...

It took a long time for me to finally break down and start reading Love And Rockets, but I'm glad I did. Otherwise I might never have found out about this bit of oddness.

Actually, maybe some of you don't get the reference. The late Jack Horkheimer had an astronomy program on PBS that came on late at night on my local channel. I enjoyed the hell out of it; the guy had a genuine excitement for astronomy. I'm probably going to a deserved lower circle of hell for that image.